The usual deadline for responding to select committee reports is two months maximum.

Labour MP Graham Allen says the Tory Government is “quite clearly trying to fix the electoral system for its own party advantage.”

The boundary changes will cost Labour an estimated 35 MPs making it even harder for them to win the next election.

David Cameron has said the reforms are necessary to “cut the cost of Parliament” though the same reasoning does not apply when it comes to the already bloated Lords which he is packing with cronies and donors.

Public health cuts

Money to help people with alcohol problems is being cut (Image: PA)

Jeremy Hunt made another announcement while the focus was on the junior doctors’ dispute - massive cuts to the public health budget.

The Department of Health slipped out a statement revealing the budget for public health would be cut by 2.2% this year and 2.5% the year after - some £200million less for helping people stay out of hospital, fight addictions and lose weight.